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IBM i

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    Provide a POST /security/dcm/appdef/add to the RSE APIs (HTTP ADMIN5)

    I have written an application to automate the Let's Encrypt process for issuing and renewing certificates. It would be very useful to have this as I don't believe that there is an API or any other method for automation.
    2 months ago in IBM i / Security 2 Under review

    A SQL view to display the information on a line

    A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Enable Kerberos for secondary 5250 session

    The ACS configuration allows for using Kerberos when opening a new ACS session and it automatically signs the user in. When the user does a SYSREQ 1, a signon screen is presented for a secondary job for the same session. For security purposes, man...
    16 days ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 0 Submitted

    Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

    The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    VARDIM for RPGLE

    Quick explanation. VARDIM is to DIM what VARCHAR is to CHAR. Background Interfacing with RPG complex structures can be done, however the implementations are not homogeneous. Examples. In IWS you need a pseudo variable suffixed by the array name ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

    Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Allow checking multiple defined conditions with one /IF compiler directive

    Checking multiple defined conditions is cumbersome - if a part of code should only be combined when two conditions are defined, one has to use nested /IF directives: /IF DEFINED(condition1) /IF DEFINED(condition2) // code only compiled when condit...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL and excluded access objects

    DISPLAY_JOURNAL fails when I choose to use *ALLFILE for OBJECT_NAME if it attempts to display the journal details for a file I do not have access to view. Either make DISPLAY_JOURNAL always auto skip the process for files user has not access and r...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

    Firmware level and PTF Group Currency on "About" page- IBM Navigator for i

    My understanding is that Navigator for i get's it's info about the system through SQL. I am also aware of a SYSTOOL to show PTF group currency. My suggestion is to combine these two features, and include the PTF Group Currency on the "About" page ...
    3 months ago in IBM i / System Management 1 Functionality already exists

    %SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

    %SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

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